I'm a fair ways from buying anything for reamping, but I'm curious about the gear. I like Radial products, use a couple of their DI's regularly. Looking at their product listings, the have a few reamping options:

Considering cost is a factor, and I only really need one output because I can reamp several times for different amps rather than once for multiple amps, which would you pick and why? Are there other more effective options out there for less money?

one useful piece of kit around the place is an ART cleanbox , either the original , or the later "pro" (not the clean box 2, it lacks variable gain)

handy for lots of things, like hooking up consumer gear in to a pro system, or weird fx processors in to guitar amps, mating unbalanced insert points to gear that only likes balanced I/O ,
bi-directionally moving from unbalanced -10 to balanced +4 nominal line levels, transformer isolated to avoid earth loops , and not so bad sounding as to be horrid....

AND..... Re-amping.

thanks to the variable gain, in amongst the uses is the useful ability to move from a balanced +4 line outs to unbalanced amp , instrument level inputs....

it's perhaps not QUITE "authentic" in terms of the sequence of impedance matching, but it is certainly close enough to get the job done , without excess noise, when a proper re-amping box is not handily available....

cheap, reliable, flexible, and very useful

i'd rather have the dedicated Radial units, but..... sometimes it's useful to know you can press other units in to service if needed.

I'm a fair ways from buying anything for reamping, but I'm curious about the gear. I like Radial products, use a couple of their DI's regularly. Looking at their product listings, the have a few reamping options:

Considering cost is a factor, and I only really need one output because I can reamp several times for different amps rather than once for multiple amps, which would you pick and why? Are there other more effective options out there for less money?

Jacob

I myself use the X-Amp and love it to death. Reliable, easy-to-use, and to my ears, transparently does its job without adding or taking anything away. I use mine for guitar, bass, and have even used it to re-amp a vocal track into a fuzz pedal and guitar amp. Worth the $$$ and can easily be found on eBay for relatively cheap.

just watch the level on your way out of your interface... not your typical reamp box, no bells and whistle, but I don't feel anything is missing. I use this ofr guitars, bass, drum room mics, etc... never failed on me, signal is always clean as can be.

Get the cheapest passive DI you can get, plug it in backwards from your mixer to your amp. That is the input goes to the Low Z out of the DI and output comes out the High Z input.

I've A/B'd it and I've linked it on this site before, the difference between the re-amp vs. straight signal is subtle enough to be ignored. If anything, some people prefer the re-amp version!

I'm aware of the technique, I was just honestly unsure about its usability. I've heard differing reports from all over about how well this method works. Not to say you're wrong, just that I am unsure about it.

I don't intend to hijack this thread, but I have a silly question about reamping. Do any of you just use the reamp boxes to use guitar type effects on non-guitar tracks, and just plug right back into the interface?

Yes it does. I guess there are no real rules when it comes to this sort of thing. I have an OLD Tech 21 bass di (the one with without a footswitch and internal trimpots) that may work, and/ or the Focusrite ISA One.